Friedrich Sixt

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Friedrich Maximilian Heinrich Sixt (born October 28, 1895 in Munich ; † August 4, 1976 there ) was a German officer , most recently a lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Friedrich Sixt was a son of the later lieutenant colonel Friedrich Laurentius Sixt (1860-1921) and went from 1902 to 1905 to the elementary school in Ansbach near Nuremberg and then to humanistic high schools in Ansbach, Nuremberg and Munich.

He stepped in mid 1914 after high school as a cadet in the army, was a lieutenant in 1915 in the 6th Field Artillery Regiment of the 5th Bavarian Division , 1918 Lieutenant promoted and fought as an intelligence officer of a department and as a departmental adjutant in the First World War .

After the end of the war he came under the Epp Freikorps and changed from there to the Reichswehr for artillery . In November 1923 he and his battery, since it was the only one in the Reichswehr in Munich at that time, participated in the suppression of the Hitler putsch . Sixt passed his military district examination in 1925 and was ordered to train as a guide assistant from 1926 . For two years he served in the military district command in Munich and then for a year in the high command of the army in Berlin . From 1929 to 1932 he was again with the military district command in Munich. In autumn 1932 he was transferred to the 5th Artillery Regiment in Fulda , where he was battery leader for two years . At the end of 1934 he was transferred to Breslau as 2nd General Staff Officer of the newly established VIII Army Corps , disguised as the "Army Service in Breslau".

He then worked in the Wehrmacht from September 1937 on the General Staff of the Army . On August 1, 1937, he was lieutenant colonel and was on February 1, 1940 Colonel promoted. In the General Staff of the Army, he was group leader of the Army and Mobilization Department , which was responsible for bringing the peace army into a state of war. From the end of April 1940 he was Chief of Staff of the newly established XXXXIV. Army Corps on the southern sector of the Eastern Front . With the 17th Army he took part in the advance into the Caucasus . On June 1, 1942, he was promoted to major general and transferred to the Führerreserve . From July 1942 to the end of April 1943 he was Chief of the General Staff of the 7th Army in France . From the end of June 1943 he led the 50th Infantry Division in the retreat from the Kuban bridgehead to the Crimea . Parts of the division were referred to as the Sixt Group . When the division withdrew to Sevastopol , Sixt was seriously wounded, was evacuated and had to hand over command to Colonel Paul Betz in May 1944 . He stayed in the hospital until July 1943 .

In mid-August 1944 he took command of the 5th Jäger Division in the 2nd Army on the Narew sector. The division fought in the Battle of East Prussia and the Battle of the Oder with the 9th Army . On April 18, 1945, he handed over his command to Lieutenant General Edmund Blaurock and, shortly before the end of the Battle of the Oder, took over command of the CI, which had withdrawn via the Hohenzollern Canal to the Elbe section, as the successor to General of the Artillery Wilhelm Berlin . Army corps in which the former 5th Jäger Division, now the 5th Infantry Division, was incorporated. With the Army Corps, subordinate to the 21st Army , he capitulated in the Ludwigslust area .

After the war he was taken prisoner of war in the United States and then in the British and was interned in the Neuengamme internment camp until 1947 . In 1948 he was asked about the annexation of Sudeten Germany , the military occupation and the Henlein Freikorps by the Allies . During the interrogation, he stated that he was not in the NSDAP .

He then worked for the Operational History (German) Section , wrote some reports and lived in Icking . Friedrich Sixt appeared in 1956 under the leadership of Erich von Manstein together with Theodor Busse and Georg-Hans Reinhardt as an advisor for the German defense contribution within the framework of NATO . In terms of content, he represented the proportion that described the operational possibilities of attackers and defenders and took part in the meeting of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag .

From 1959 to 1963 he was chairman of the state parents' association of high schools in Bavaria .

His estate, including his diaries, is archived in the Federal Archives and the officers' personnel file (No. 56446) in the Bavarian Main State Archives .

Awards

Works

  • The campaign against the Soviet Union in the northern section of the Eastern Front, III . The transition of the initiative to the Russians (war year 1943) . For the Army Study Group, ZA 1/2045, P-114a.
  • The campaign against the Soviet Union in the northern section of the Eastern Front, IV . The withdrawal of Army Group North to the Baltic countries and the struggle for the connection with the entire front, January to mid-September 1944 . For the Army Study Group, ZA 1/2046.
  • The campaign against the Soviet Union in the North section of the Eastern Front, V . Enclosure in Courland and final battle of Army Group North / Courland . For the Army Study Group, ZA 1/2047, P-114a.
  • 10th SS Panter Division “Frundsberg” Jun – Nov 1944 . U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies, P-163.
  • The activity of the Div. No. 180 in September and October 1944 . U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies, P-172.
  • The fighting of the Panzer Brigade 107 in September and October 1944 . Self-published , 1966.

literature

  • Friedrich Forstmeier : The clearing of the Kuban bridgehead in autumn 194 3. Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, 1964,
  • Wolfgang Keilig : The German Army. 1939-1945. Volume 3, Podzun, 1956, p. 319.
  • Peter Stockert: Die Eichenlaubträger 1940–1945 , 9 volumes, 4th revised edition, Bad Friedrichshall 2010–2011.
  • Caring and companionship – In memory of Lieutenant General a. D. Friedrich Sixt . Alte Kameraden, Carl Teike Verlag, 10/1976, p. 25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Kurowski: Denied paternity: Wehrmacht officers created the Bundeswehr . Pour le Mérite, 2000, ISBN 978-3-932381-12-6 , pp. 31 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  2. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 98 + 99 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Robert Forczyk: Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44 . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78200-975-7 , pp. 328 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  4. ↑ The logs for this are digitally available, see web links.
  5. ↑ Oliver von Wrochem: Erich von Manstein: Annihilation War and History Policy . Schöningh, 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-76599-4 , pp. 329 + 330 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  6. ^ Georg Meyer: Adolf Heusinger: Service of a German Soldier, 1915 to 1964 . Mittler, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8132-0769-9 , pp. 546 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 .
  8. ↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 82, 326 .
  9. ^ Dieter Stenger: Panzers East and West: The German 10th SS Panzer Division from the Eastern Front to Normandy . Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, ISBN 978-0-8117-6590-9 , pp. 357 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Sixt, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sixt, Friedrich Maximilian Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1976
Place of death Munich